PARADISE LOST. BY JOHN MILTON. BOOK I. WITH PREFATORY AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY E. F. WILLOUGHBY, M.D. NEW YORK: MAYNARD, MERRILL, & Co., HARVARD COLLE MAY 15 1919 1901, Dec. 9. LIBRARY Dept. of Education Library, a fund from Gift of the Publishers. A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. Spelling, Language, Grammar, Composition, Literature. Reed's Word Lessons-A Complete Speller. Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessons in English. Kellogg & Reed's The English Language. Kellogg's Illustrations of Style. Kellogg's Text-Book on English Literature. In the preparation of this series the authors have had one object clearly in view-to so develop the study of the English language as to present a complete, progressive course, from the Spelling-Book to the study of English Literature. The troublesome contradictions which arise in using books arranged by different authors on these subjects, and which require much time for explanation in the schoolroom, will be avoided by the use of the above "Complete Course." Teachers are earnestly invited to examine these books. MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.. Publishers, New York, PREFACE. IN preparing this edition of the first book of Milton's Paradise Lost for the use of higher schools, and advanced students generally, I have made free use of the works of others, but I have refrained from giving my authorities, except where I could feel pretty certain that I had found the original source of the criticism or annotation, whether that met with my approval or dissent. I was led to this course, not by any wish to ignore the labours of my predecessors, but by the example of the editor of the Clarendon Press Edition, who frequently attributes to Keightley, to whom he owes so much, remarks which I discovered in the writings of critics who wrote a hundred and fifty years ago. Passages from Scripture I have quoted in full when Milton seems to have drawn his facts or expressions directly therefrom, but I have given a mere reference when there seemed to be only a similarity of ideas, or where the passage in question might serve to illustrate the meaning of the text. Had space permitted, I should have followed the same rule with the classic, and other parallels, but I have been compelled to content myself with simple references, unless, as in the case of Martial, Seneca, &c., they are not always at hand; or where the whole point of the allusion hangs on a very few words; these I have not translated, assuming on the part of my readers an acquaintance with Greek and Latin; while in the case of the Italian poets, the existing English metrical translations are sadly inadequate, and so free as to fail entirely to do justice to the originals, the study of which I would gladly encourage among all who can appreciate the higher order of poetry. I have given a few passages in full from that quaint old book, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, not referred to in other editions of Milton, though there can be little doubt but that Milton was familiar with it, and it alone will give an |
